Monthly Archives: June 2010

Intel researchers have published the results of a performance comparison between their latest quad-core Core i7 processor and a two-year-old Nvidia graphics card, and found that the Intel processor can’t match the graphics chip’s parallel processing performance. On average, the … Continue reading →

Intel Labs has created an experimental “Single-chip Cloud Computer,” (SCC) a research microprocessor containing the most Intel Architecture cores ever integrated on a silicon CPU chip – 48 cores. It incorporates technologies intended to scale multi-core processors to 100 cores and beyond, such as an on-chip network, advanced power management technologies and support for “message-passing.” Continue reading →

Researchers at Harvard and Microsoft have authored a paper that seeks to prove that a small, power-efficient core like the Intel Atom chip can be better suited for search. The paper compares the performance, reliability, and cost of ownership of … Continue reading →

NextIO’s vCore product family offers Nvidia’s GPUs for both compute-intensive and data visualisation needs. With the ability to hold eight double-wide GPUs in 4U of space, the vCore C200 delivers more than eight TeraFLOPS of GPU computing power that can … Continue reading →

More than a week ago, Dell anounced two new blades for increased performance and scalability. The new Dell PowerEdge M610x is a full height blade server that adds two full height PCI-E gen 2 16x slots to the old M610 (wich … Continue reading →

On the 17th of june, the US company OnLive launched the firt cloud-based gaming system. The OnLive gaming cloud is based on the Internet Explorer web brower on the client side and on a special PCI-E adapter that connects to … Continue reading →